tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post9029972165374543890..comments2024-03-28T20:54:46.309-07:00Comments on Up Close, with Peter Sage: Trump KarmaUp Close: Road to the White Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03590477200706751934noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-36817987572333753552017-06-01T08:16:39.135-07:002017-06-01T08:16:39.135-07:00Your focus on popular perception and its electoral...Your focus on popular perception and its electoral impact is always useful, but in regard to the question of ties to Russia, either by the Trump campaign or the Trump family enterprises or both, it's important for us to get to the substance. Thus, the special prosecutor's investigation must and will proceed. We don't know what it will reveal, and if there isn't a "smoking gun," then the Democrats may not get the electoral mileage out of it that they hope to. But really, Peter, it's not tolerable for a nation's citizenry not to know about its leader's foreign entanglements. Herbert Rothschildnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-87980847831684504382017-05-31T16:09:51.876-07:002017-05-31T16:09:51.876-07:00Street fighters like it down and dirty. Trump ushe...Street fighters like it down and dirty. Trump ushered in a replacement of the "politics of personal destruction" with the "politics of delegitimization ab initio"-- i.e. unfitness at the start. This is another Trump normalization of the crude and previously unacceptable, and few credible politicians (and no "nice guys") can survive in that ring. <br /><br />Democrats may need to return to machine politics a la Chicago, with "bosses" in charge of candidate validation. Trump opened the sewers and asylums and Democrats are rushing in to join the nasty fray. We're in Trumpland now. Thad Guyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12145098704410773166noreply@blogger.com